Example sentences of "to get [pron] [noun] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WOO JUST HANG ON A SEC I 'm a 19-year-old female wanting to get my hands on a good-looking male ( 19-21 ) . |
| 2 | I could hardly wait , for example , to get my hands on the original ballpoint pen . |
| 3 | If it was , I 'd like to get my hands on the bastard that made it . ’ |
| 4 | France does not expect to get its way on every one of these conditions . |
| 5 | In Manila the Philippine government testily rejected Mrs Marcos 's offer of help to the poor , and continued its interminable task of trying to get its hands on the Marcos money . |
| 6 | AT&T is the first company to get its hands on the product , which runs on MVS . |
| 7 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 8 | The players will be keen to get their season on the East Region circuit off to a good start in the 36 hole Senate Charity Open which starts tomorrow , and the man they will all be out to beat is European Tour regular Paul Curry . |
| 9 | But with the tax collectors anxious to get their hands on every ha'penny , the Chancellor can not afford to be generous . |
| 10 | There sure are a lot of people out there who 'll go to any lengths to get their hands on a laser printer , judging by the fantastic response to our February competition . |
| 11 | The best advice anyone can give is for people to get their hands on a copy of the official festival programme and to plan their own agenda . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember who or where , but I remember somebody suggesting that clubs should introduce loyalty bonuses so that players are not tempted to leave a club simply to get their hands on a fat signing on fee . |
| 13 | ‘ A lot of people are obviously going to be disappointed , but others who are willing to take a chance right up until the match may be lucky to get their hands on a ticket . ’ |
| 14 | When Awlad Amira took control of the popular committees a few months later , ousting Mannaia from office , Umar al-Abairsh and his supporters alleged that they could have done so only with Tibbu support ; they said only Awlad Amira , poor and unenterprising , would stoop so low to get their hands on the administration : Awlad Amira denied establish the truth of such allegations : Awlad Amira denied them , as they would ; Tibbu pointed to their political inactivity , their poverty and lack of numbers , and their peacefulness ( except under provocation ) , suggesting that Mannaia were scarcely dispassionate when they talked about the results of elections . |
| 15 | Future events were to prove just how right Stirling had been in making the latter observations and how his basic principles were to be constantly watered down by interference from outside bodies trying to get their hands on the SAS Regiment , which achieved its greatest successes when left to its own devices . |
| 16 | Hundreds of parents yesterday slept outside Toys R Us stores in Swansea and Bristol in a desperate bid to get their hands on the island . |
| 17 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 18 | Blind children at a college in Worcester ca n't wait to get their hands on the latest batch of adventure stories , translated into braille by computor . |
| 19 | LINFIELD fans anxious to get their hands on the club 's new-look kit will have to wait . |
| 20 | No team has really dominated since 1976 but now-defunct clubs Leytonstone & Ilford , Walthamstow Avenue and Dagenham all managed to get their names on the trophy before losing their identity . |
| 21 | she feels he is common , poor boy and he does n't even realise that Miss Havisham is actually only using Estella as a tool , a beautiful tool , to break men 's hearts and to get her revenge on the male sex . |
| 22 | Miss chalk and that is terrible of you implying that Miss is only doing it to get her voice on the recorder . |
| 23 | Mrs Clwyd — like Mr Livingstone — may well have difficulty gathering the nominations of 55 MPs needed to get her name on the ballot paper . |
| 24 | ‘ She wants to get her hands on the boy in the bistro . ’ |
| 25 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 26 | But Roper was the only Ballyshannon attacker to get his name on the score sheet , and when he failed to tie the game up with that late penalty the misery was complete for De La Salle . |
| 27 | Blackburn star Shearer still on the way back from injury began on the bench for the fifth successive game , while for once Wright failed to get his name on the scoresheet . |
| 28 | That is probably why he needs to hold a general election , to get his clothes on the right way . |
| 29 | Mark Kiff went to get his verdict on the game . |
| 30 | Nothing could lift his mood — not the fact that his supplier had managed to get his hands on a pirate video of the new Schwarzenegger , nor the really quite healthy profit he had made on the afternoon 's racing at York , nor even the fat Havana cigar to which he had treated himself . |